| Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville - 1794 - 408 страници
...will find here the Englifh fafhions. In the drefs of the women you will fee the moft brilliant filks, gauzes, hats, and borrowed hair. Equipages are rare; but they are elegant. The men have more fimplicity in their drefs; they difdain gewgaws, but they take their revenge in the luxury of the table.... | |
| Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville, Joel Barlow, Étienne Clavière - 1794 - 444 страници
...Equipages are rare; but they are elegant. The men have more nmplicity in their drefs; they difdain gewgaws, but they take their revenge in the luxury of the table. Luxury forms already, in this town, a clafs of men very dangerous in fociety—I mean bachelors. The expence of women caufes... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1797 - 822 страници
...Equipages are rare, but they are ele§ant. The men have more fimplicity in their refs; they difdain gewgaws, but they take their revenge in the luxury of the table. Luxury forms already, in this town, a clafs of men very dangerous in fociety — I mean bachelors. The expence of women caufes... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1797 - 410 страници
...find here the Englifti f,:ihions. In the drefs of the women, you will fee the nioft brilliaut filks, gauzes, hats, and borrowed hair. Equipages are rare, but they are elegant. The men have more fimplicity in their drefs; they difdaln gewgaws, but they take their revenge in the luxury oft he table.... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1803 - 380 страници
...there is a town on the American continent where the English luxury displays its follies, it is New York. You will find here the English fashions. In...silks, gauzes, hats, and borrowed hair. Equipages are raret, but they are elegant. The men have more simplicity in their dress ; they disdain gewgaws, but... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 532 страници
..." If there is a town on the American continent where English luxury displays its follies, it is New York. You will find here the English fashions. In...disdain gewgaws, but they take their revenge in the delicacies of the table. Luxury forms already iu this town a class of men very dangerous in society... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 466 страници
..." If there is a town on the American continent where English luxury displays its follies, it is New York. You will find here the English fashions. In...disdain gewgaws, but they take their revenge in the delicacies of the table. Luxury forms already in this town a class of men very dangerous in society... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1867 - 616 страници
..." If there is a town on the American continent where English luxury displays its follies, it is New York. You will find here the English fashions. In...disdain gewgaws, but they take their revenge in the delicacies of the table. Luxury forms already in this town a class of men very dangerous in society... | |
| 1889 - 1024 страници
...If there is a town on the American continent where English luxury displays its follies, it is in New York. You will find here the English fashions. In...brilliant silks, gauzes, hats, and borrowed hair." It is amusing, in this connection, to note the French gentleman's ideal of what a woman should be.... | |
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